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- ISBN
- 9781541672529
- Book Title
- Dreams of El Dorado : a History of the American West
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 28.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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By the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had already been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and he judged that America's territory must expand too, lest America become as crowded and conflict-prone as Europe. He started modestly, by seeking to purchase New Orleans from the French. Napoleon Bonaparte answered with a breathtaking proposal: would the Americans care to purchase all of Louisiana? Jefferson said yes and soon enough had dispatched two explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to find a passage across the new territory to the Pacific.In Dreams of El Dorado , the bestselling author H. W. Brands captures the experiences of the men and women who headed into this new territory, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in early 19th century to the closing of the frontier in the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers, mountain men, cowboys, missionaries, and soldiers; he takes us on the Oregon Trail, to John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in the Pacific Northwest, to Texas during its revolution and California during the gold rush and to Little Big Horn on the day of Custer's defeat at the hands of the Indian general Crazy Horse. Not every American who went West sought immense wealth but most expected a greater competence than they could find in the East. Their dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame; their dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples, foreigners and one another.Throughout, Brands explodes many longstanding myths, reorienting our view of the West and of American history more broadly. The West was often viewed as the last bastion of American individualism but woven through its entire history was a strong thread of collectivism. Westerners sneered, even snarled, at federal power but federal power was essential to the development of the West. The West was America's unspoiled Eden but the spoilage of the West proceeded more rapidly than that of any other region. The West was where whites fought Indians but they rarely went into battle without Indian allies and their ranks included black soldiers. The West was where fortune beckoned, where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise, the bonanza farmer's audacity; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.A sweeping, engrossing work of narrative history, Dreams of El Dorado will forever change how we think about the making of the American nation.
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Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
1541672526
ISBN-13
9781541672529
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038590384
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dreams of El Dorado : a History of the American West
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
28.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F591.B814 2019
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"Lively...[Brands] knowshow to write in a popular style that draws us in and holds our interest...[He]also pauses to make some thought-provoking insights, which round out thenarrative and present his subject in a fresh light...An engaging, eminentlyreadable introduction."-- Wall Street Journal, "Brands is a master storyteller...[ Dreams of El Dorado ] will enthrall aficionados of 19th-century American history."-- Library Journal, "A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. W. Brands is at his sparkling best. He is of the American West and grew up in its myths, which may explain why he writes about it with such passion and clarity."-- S. C. Gwynne , New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell, "[Brands] has a deftnarrative touch and a talent for highlighting the human drama undergirdinghistorical events...History as adventure story."-- Los Angeles Reviewof Books, "Brands surveys the pastthree centuries of the West, chronicling all-too-human tales of hope, greed,triumph, tragedy, and irony. His history is propelled by the stories of amazingcharacters, some famous, others obscure...A marvelous short history of the West,rewarding both expert and neophyte readers."-- Booklist (starredreview), "Brands arguesconvincingly that the reality of the American West was very different than theway it was mythologized...Lucid prose and short, tightly focused chapters...Thisbroad but clearly structured study, with its many well-chosen illustrations, islikely to have wide appeal."-- Publishers Weekly, "An exciting new historyof the American West and how it was settled, from the California gold rush tothe Oklahoma land rush and more."-- New York Post, "The 'winning' of the American West is that biggest and most daunting of subjects, so big that most historians have found it necessary to bite off small corners of this grand and sordid tale of empire-building. But here H.W. Brands endeavors to tell it all, from Texas to California, from beaver pelts to buffalo robes, from the hoofbeats of horses to the steam blasts of the first transcontinental trains. Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians."-- Hampton Sides , bestselling author of Blood and Thunder, "The expansion of the United States across what would become the American West is the sort of sprawling, tumultuous epic that is best told by a calm and concentrated mind. Fortunately the author of this book is H.W. Brands, who has the vision and supreme narrative skill to braid the chaotic tendrils that make up the past into a story that is almost as exciting for its coherence as it is for the heroic and heartbreaking events it so vividly renders. Dreams of El Dorado is the latest reason to think of Brands as America's go-to historian."-- Stephen Harrigan , author of Big Wonderful Thing and The Gates of the Alamo
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-048887
Dewey Decimal
978/.02
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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